Does Snow Leopard take care of cron sripts?

Are cron scripts still relavant in Snow Leopard and if you shut down/sleep your Mac overnight, does Snow Leopard take care of them when it starts or wakes up?

Carolyn Samit wrote:
It must on from 3:15AM to 5:30AM not in Sleep mode.
This is wrong and has been oft discussed before.if the computer is asleep overnight it will run the scripts when you wake it in the morning. let's not start the same old discussion again. more to the point, jeffrey is quite right that those periodic scripts are mostly useless and have been made even more so in snow leopard because rebuilding locate database was removed from the weekly script. running them by hand or installing some software to do them is a serious waste of time.
here is a good description (by jeffrey) of what those periodic scripts do
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8906776#8906776
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I have a 2009 Mac Pro quad 2.66 ghz with original 12gb of ram(an option at time of pruchace, but I also have different modules for 6gb from another machine of the same series, problem is not related to the RAM modules). I also have multiple hard drives and tried installing everything from Lion onwards to any of those (even having a single drive in the system), and the problem presists.
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When I boot up Snow Leopard system takes around 1.5-2gb of ram and that is perfectly fine. Everything works great.
When I boot up Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, the system itself takes 6gb of RAM or more just too boot. This can't be right, how would any newer Mac even work with their 4gb.
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Greetings,
I wanted to get a clean start for my iTunes Library.
First, I deleted my iTunes folder in Documents into the trash and then emptied the Trash. Second, I deleted the iTunes app.
I went to iTunes and downloaded a new iTunes application. After it was installed the entire iTunes music library was there when I opened my new download of the iTunes Application.
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Leigh

You can find out or change where the actual songs are by opening iTunes/Preferences/Advanced (I'm still on iTunes 8 so I apologize if your menu looks different). Click my link below. The yellow highlight is mine.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e311/racer27x/Public/Picture2-1.png
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One2Two wrote:
I read on here that Leopard and Snow Leopard need to be installed once the computer arrives. Is this true? Meaning that the OS X Snow Leopard is not already installed on the notebook when it arrives! That can't be.
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Also, if I purchase One-on-One at thid Apple Store, it mentions (or I heard fro someone that I can use the 1st class or whatever it is called to get help with installing programs, migrating from the old to the new, learning a little about the SL OS, etc.? I hope this is good for people who purchase the notebook from the online Apple Store too. It has to be, right?
*One to One* is a separate purchase & includes personalized help for everything you mentioned. Read about it at http://www.apple.com/retail/onetoone/.
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